History Main / ChromaticArrangement

** Their {{Spear Counterpart}}s the Rowdy Ruff Boys are blood-red, ocean-blue, and emerald-green.

* ''Art/TheGhentAltarpiece'': This [[UsefulNotes/{{TheRenaissance}} Renaissance]] masterwork by Creator/JanVanEyck features God the Father (robed in red), St. John the Baptist (green), and the Virgin Mary (blue) as the central figures of its interior middle panel. Note that it was painted immediately before 1432, ''just'' making the trope demonstrably OlderThanPrint.

* ''Art/TheGhentAltarpiece'': This [[UsefulNotes/{{TheRenaissance}} Renaissance]] masterwork by Jan van Eyck features God the Father (robed in red), St. John the Baptist (green), and the Virgin Mary (blue) as the central figures of its interior middle panel. Note that it was painted immediately before 1432, ''just'' making the trope demonstrably OlderThanPrint.

* [=MediaCity UK=], where among other things TheBBC has a major base, doesn't have street names, but street colours. Thoroughfares with signage and street furniture in blue, white, pink, yellow and purple radiate out from the centre, connected by green, orange and red streets.

** Its pantheon is composed of three goddesses represented by the three colors, and the PlotCoupons (and often other items) that you have to find are always either only these colors or you have to find these colors first. Din, goddess of power, is red and representative of Ganon, the BigBad. Farore, goddess of courage, is green and representative of Link, the [[HeroicMime protagonist]]. Nayru, goddess of wisdom, is blue and representative of Zelda, princess of Hyrule and DistressedDamsel. Originally, green--the Triforce of Courage--was not included in the game. It could be argued they originally represented RedOniBlueOni first.

* ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'': [[TheDitz Lucia]] (pink), [[TheChick Hanon]] (aqua), and Rina (green), all in the first three chapters, and also in the first three episodes of the anime, although, in that, Rina didn't transform until the fourth episode. In the manga, Hanon was even called "blue" by mistake when the three were gathered (she's officially designated "aqua" to distinguish her from Noel, who's dark blue). Following them are Noel (dark blue/indigo), Caren (purple), Coco (yellow), and Sara/Seira (orange).

* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'': Mixes it up a bit but still follows the basic convention. Syaoran wears green and brown, Kurogane red and black, and Fai wears blue and white. Sakura, who begins the series as TheChick and wears pink, doesn't count as part of the fighting trio. [[spoiler:She gets to kick ass later, though.]]

** Magic uses white, blue, black, red, and green. Blue is TheSmartGuy. Red fits more with TheLancer (to white) than TheHero, though. Green can be TheBigGuy, since green's only way of dealing with creatures is a contest of sheer power, or TheChick, because its mana acceleration is faster than any other color and bleeds into other colors.

** Riku's costumes have a good amount of [[RedOniBlueOni blue to contrast with Sora's red]], but they also always prominently feature yellow, possibly following this trope. [[TheChick Kairi]], meanwhile, wears a mix of white and purple in the first game, then switches to a [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]] outfit.

* ''Anime/YesPrecure5'' averts the usual red-blue-green order, opting instead for something close to the typical rainbow spectum order - pink (Nozomi), red (with orange hair) (Rin), yellow (Urara), green (Komachi), blue (Karen), [[spoiler:and a purple SixthRanger (Milk)]].

* ''WebAnimation/{{ONE}}: In the EnsembleCast, the main trio the series focused on are Backpack/Liam (Green), Scenty/Amelia (Blue) and Soda Bottle/Bryce (Red).

* ''Franchise/TheKingOfFighters'': The pigment color pattern is used for three prominent characters associated with NESTS's cloning experiments and their respective {{Power Limiter}}s: K' has a red glove, Kula has yellow gloves, and K9999/[[spoiler:Krohnen]] has a blue glove.

%%* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' has color-coded tiers of sharpness, with purple being the most powerful. Sharpness is one of the factors that decide damage output, and it also determines if your attack will cleanly cut or bash an enemy or bounce off, with purple being "the number of things in this game that will bounce your weapon off can be counted on one hand."

However red, blue and ''yellow'' are often understood to be the primary subtractive colors, or colors of pigment, ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opponent_process and yellow the fourth primary color of light according to some theories]]). So you may get an RBY team where yellow replaces green, or an RBGY team of four combining to two typical trio arrangements.

** However, in ''VideoGame/SegaSonicTheHedgehog'', the original power trio consisted of Sonic (blue), Mighty (red) and Ray (yellow). This trio [[TheBusCameBack came back]] in ''VideoGame/SonicManiaPlus'', more precisely in Mighty and Ray's endings.
** This is [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated]] to ridiculous levels in ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes''. All playable trios are color coded based on their power; Blue (for speed), Yellow (for flight), and Red (for power) after Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles

** The three kinds of Pikmin that appear in the first game are red, yellow and blue pikmins.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'': Buzz's voice buttons are in this arrangement.

** Several trios of Monster cards follow this pattern in their aesthetics:

* The three "headliner" tribes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'' for its first year are the red fire-based Infernites, the blue ice-based Frosticons, and the green slime-based Glorp Corp. These tribes are given extra highlights compared to the other tribes, such as promotions and a second wave of characters in the second year.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'': The "Steam Team", prior to the introduction of Nia and Rebecca. James is colored red; Thomas, Edward, and Gordon are colored blue; and Henry, Percy, and Emily are colored green (though the last one is colored in a much darker shade of green). This leaves out Toby, who is colored brown.

* ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'': Gammamon's Champion-level evolutions fit this arrangement to go with their StellarName motif. [[PlayingWithFire BetalGammamon]] (red), [[MoreDakka WezenGammamon]] (green), and [[NotQuiteFlight KausGammamon]] (blue) are named after stars of matching colors. True to their additive primary motif, their shared Ultimate-level is [[LightEmUp CanoWeissmon]] which is named after Canopus, the second-brightest individual star in the night sky. Fittingly, his evolution sequence to this form also invokes AllYourPowersCombined. Meanwhile [[SuperpoweredEvilSide GulusGammamon]] is pitch-black, representing the absence of additive primaries.